ASCM

While 2023 proved to be a comeback year, there's still a ways to go before a return to pre-pandemic normalcy.

Speakers at recent ASCM conference explain why a global supply chain matters to individual businesses.

As more companies look to leverage big data and analytics, they are finding a digital supply chain is a must.

While supply chain disruptions have lessened, ASCM and KPMG’s Stability Index continues to point to increased global instability.

To better manage through the constrained labor market, logistics operations are courting more women and other diverse job candidates; ramping up their training programs; investing in automation; and ensuring that positions offer the work-life balance that many new recruits are seeking.

ASCM, KPMG index reveals some easing, but pressure remains high.

While the turbulent market has created headaches for shippers, carriers, and service providers, our study also focused on one of the most critical threats facing today’s logistics and supply chain leaders: people.

With a smaller labor pool to pull from and e-commerce sales continuing to escalate, logistics managers need solid tactics for winning the race for talent.

A perfect storm of factors is making employee recruitment and retention particularly difficult in 2021. Here’s how warehouse and distribution centers can position themselves as “employers of choice” in this challenging environment.

Logistics Management Group News Editor recently caught up with ASCM’s Abe Eshkenazi to learn more about the various trends occurring within the intersection of e-commerce and related site development, as they relate to the myriad moving logistics-related parts.

A collaboration between business consultancy Deloitte and the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) announced today is comprised of a new model geared towards providing logistics stakeholders with the tools needed to face various supply chain-related obstacles, such as market volatility, digital disruption, and shifting consumer expectations, among others.

How are companies faring in the race to recruit and train high-level supply chain talent in a market with a national unemployment rate at a 50-year low?

APICS’ new name reflects an association focused on the end-to-end supply chain.